Teaching

I’ve always known the education system is a like a large, slow freighter. Teaching in a public school for two decades reveals to anyone that this ship is s

My son loved everything about school, until he didn’t. He was eager to learn, read, write and make friends. At 5, he had already had varied life experience

As a new white educator, it’s your job to understand the difference between individual and systemic racism, privilege, conscious and unconscious bias.

My father was a high school teacher for 30 years. My earliest memories are of him returning home in the evening after a long day in the classroom, planning

Well, we did it. Like millions of White, relatively affluent Americans before us, my wife and I moved with our two boys out of the city and into the suburb

Her name is Alexandra. She was a student in a school where I used to work and she was one of those kids who challenges you, causes her share of trouble, an

Every August 2, I spend nearly the entire day observing the birthday of the late James Baldwin, one of the 20th century’s most esteemed and prolific writer

When Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008, I was living in Chicago and working as a computer security engineer. After hearing Obama’s passio

What do voters consider most important when it comes to public education? According to a recent poll commissioned by the largest teachers union in my home